New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-20
NAVY FAMILIES IN GREATPERIA
EARLY FIRES In TWO TENEMENT HOUSES
ONE CAUSED By AN EXPLODING LAMP AND THE
OTHER ny BOILING FAT.

ONE CAUSED By AN EXPLODING LAMP AND THE
OTHER ny BOILING FAT.
The hve-story tenement house which Conrad
Mchaels recently built on the southwest corner OF
Sixt, ninth-st. and Eeventhsve. was damaged badly
by FIRE yesterday before all the rooms occupied.
1t was large enough to hold sixteen families, but
only thirteen sets OF rooms occupied up to Mon
day night when the last family moved In. Michael
Clulick. an unmarried German. occupied roomv on
tho fourth aooi, and, being alone, he Kept lamp
burning In his bedroom. The lamp EXPLODED some time
after a. m. yesterday and set Ere 10 the room.
CiuIick awoks when he half choked by tho smoke
and made frantic rush from the burning room, but
he tell exhausted before he had reached the hallway
and became insensible. Probably there would have
been loss of life In the house bad not alarm been
sounded quickly by Policeman Morris who saw smoke
issuing from Clulick's window Policeman Mertz,
who was tho house also, went with Morris to
the tenants. When they got up to the fourth
floor where the fire was they broke open Clulicks
door sna found him insensble in front room. The
Asmes bad already reached him and he had been
burned severely on the face and hands. Morris
dragged him out and carried him down stairs.
Other occupsnts OF the house in state Of great
their wives and parents had lost their children in
trying to escape from their rooms Every ono wanted
to 60 the wronE way Leaving Gucn IN charge Of
to rescue number of children who had been over
looked in rooms full Of smoke Mertz was busy mean
Tno ana had go several women AN and children out
ing houses Everybody was out safely before the
Hremen reached the house. The flames had spread
we'll .bIaze in the roar 1t took an Lour to extinguish
the fire. An ambulance, summoned by the fremen,
carried Clulick to the Roosevelt Hospital. He had
5. us ms TO b
house was about 5000. Mr.. Michsels sal il was
worth $3OOOD and was insured tor $4,000 by the
the families Of August Stryker. Patrick Dwyef.
August Funck and Dennis Healey were made unin-
hsbable By the Ere, and the losses OF the families
amounted to about 81 900. II MAS said that their
property Was not insured Clulick's loss was about
sou and water csused losses amounting to 81 1000.
An hour before the fire In Sixty-ninth-st. DANES
42l Weat 81 feminist. Joseph Weinman bad occu-
pied the basement and first floor bakery tor about
i've weeks He had two partners In the place OF tho
beginning. but they went to establish bakery IN
Sccond-ave. about the end OF March. Tho residents
the west side did not know Weinman, and bis
business not AonrishiDg. After the fire started
IN bis bakery Yesterday morning he stood the
sidewalk and shouted several minutes to warn the
tenants Seventeen families were asleep on the
upper floors when WeiDman began to shout. but bis
cries OF fire" and the smoke rising from below got
them out OF their beds in quick time There were
freescape In front and in the rear OF the house and
the stairways were clear OF hames until seve,.l
families had got out No one seemed to think OF :.
fre-escapes. John Keegan, an old lrishiiaH wnp
lived with his daughter on the third floor, did think
without help, and his daughter would not leave him
alone in the room. Fireman Murray OF Hook and
Ladder company No II helped the old man a. I'd bis
ngushed before they had time spread hey ond the
bakery Veinman had disappeared from the place
soon after the 6remen arrived and the Iolice could
not lind him although they searched tor him several
hours His unaccouDtabls disappearance caused
sus picious rumors, but one of the Fire MarshaPs
assistants who made ali investigation. expressed
az opinion that the flames had been caused by fst
boiling over in the bakr-shop. Fl. Hyne. OF NO. W
Murray-st who owns tue tenement house, can repair
the damage at an expense OF $1,000. Weinmans
loss was about $500.